Pastor. Wife. Mother. Artist. All given just enough time.

Catching Up on Time, Sleep, Etc.

We made it back to Taos about 3am and got a few hours of sleep. We came back to find out that our neighborhood’s water will be shut off today and tomorrow, so before we went to bed we filled bathtubs and containers with water. I have a phobia about not having water. I guess it’s from traveling to many countries where water is scarce and hard to get.

Today I’m going to be catching up on sleep, on getting back into the right time zone, on laundry, etc. So I don’t think I’ll get to do much creative stuff. Although I do have knitting group tonight and I’m not missing it even though I’ll probably be pretty sleepy. And I took a peek at the next journal making lesson — looks cool, but I’m not ready to start on it today.

So, just for fun I thought I’d post a picture of a piece of embroidery I did last fall in the Doodling Designs class I took with Susan Sorrell at Joggles.

You can click on the picture to see more of the detail. It’s about 8 or 9 inches square and was done from a doodle I drew during the class. I wasn’t blogging then, but other pictures from that class are posted way back at the beginning of my flickr photos.

It has embroidery, beading and quilting. I haven’t done anything to really finish it yet, but I think I’m going to make a rubber stamp and stamp a piece of hand dyed fabric to mount it on, then mount the whole thing on stretcher strips.

The fabric for this came from my stash of fabric and was purchased from another hand dyer before I started doing my own. Threads used are DMC cotton floss and Caron Watercolors.